Towards a Francophone Community
Subtitle: Canada's Relations With France And French Africa, 1945-1968 (Foreign Policy, Security and Strategic Studies)
Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press
Published: May 2006
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 191
ISBN-13: 9780773530331
Subjects: European history (ie other than Britain & Ireland); International relations; Politics / Current Events; Political Science; Politics/International Relations; France; International Relations - Arms Control; International Relations - General; Africa, French-speaking; Canada; Foreign relations
Description: "Based on extensive archival research, Towards a Francophone Community is the first in-depth study of Canada's foreign policy toward France and the former French colonies. Robin Gendron rebuts the argument of Quebec nationalists and scholars that the Canadian government's neglect of French Africa forced Quebec to develop its own international identity. He shows that there had been active federal interest in French African affairs since the late 1940s, within the context of developments in NATO and the Cold War, the vagaries of Canada's relations with France, and the Quiet Revolution in Quebec."--Jacket.